Wendy Craig

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Wendy Craig (* 20th June 1934 in Sacriston near Durham , England , as Anne Gwendolyn Craig ) is a British actress .

life and career

Craig, the daughter of a farmer, was already on stage at the age of three and studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama . As a stage actress, she starred in London's West End alongside fellow actors like Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole . From the mid-1950s she took on her first roles on British television and was seen in smaller supporting roles in films such as The Way Up .

A first major film role played Craig in 1963 in The Servant of Joseph Losey as a young woman from the British upper class, whose fiance comes under the influence of his servants. At the British Academy Film Awards in 1964 , she received a nomination for this in the category of best young actress . After that, Craig appeared in a few other movies, such as Was It Really Murder? (1965) at the side of Bette Davis , but from the late 1960s mainly focused on television roles in sitcoms : through leading roles in series such as Not in Front of the Children , ... And Mother Makes Three , ... And Mother Makes Five and Butterflies , she was present to a broad television audience in Great Britain from the late 1960s to the 1980s. In these roles she played mostly stressed, strange-looking middle-class housewives. After she was rarely seen on television from the mid-1980s, she took on a leading role as the hospital matron in the 1960s series The Royal between 2003 and 2011 . Since 2017, Craig has played the role of the magic teacher Ms. Mouse in the children's series A Lousy Witch .

Wendy Craig was married to the musician and journalist Bentley (1913-1994) from 1955 until his death, the couple had one son. She has a son Ross, born in 1962, from an affair with the lawyer and writer John Mortimer . Mortimer only found out about his son in 2004 and then met with him.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1955: Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon (TV movie)
  • 1957: On the Edge of the Underworld (The Secret Place)
  • 1959: The Way Up (Room at the Top)
  • 1961/1966: Secret assignment for John Drake ( Danger Man ; TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1961: Candida (TV movie)
  • 1963: The Mind Benders
  • 1963: The Servant (The Servant)
  • 1965: Was It Really Murder? (The Nanny)
  • 1967: What comes next ...? (I'll Never Forget What's' isname)
  • 1967–1970: Not in Front of the Children (TV series, 37 episodes)
  • 1971–1973: And Mother Makes Three (TV series, 26 episodes)
  • 1974–1976: And Mother Makes Five (TV series, 26 episodes)
  • 1977: The Adventures of Joseph Andrews (Joseph Andrews)
  • 1978–1983: Butterflies (TV series, 28 episodes)
  • 1981–1983: Nanny (TV series, 30 episodes)
  • 1989: Laura and Disorder (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1993–1994: Brighton Bells (TV series, 11 episodes)
  • 2002: Inspector Barnaby (TV series, episode A Worm in the Bud)
  • 2002–2003: The Forsyte Saga (TV miniseries, 6 episodes)
  • 2003-2011: The Royal (TV series, 87 episodes)
  • 2006–2019: Doctors (TV series, 4 episodes)
  • 2011: Casualty (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2012: Run for Your Wife
  • 2016: Death in Paradise (TV series, 1 episode)
  • since 2017: A Lousy Witch ( The Worst Witch ; TV series, 34 episodes)
  • 2018: Emmerdale (TV series, 6 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BFI Screenonline: Craig, Wendy (1934-) Biography. Retrieved October 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ BFI Screenonline: Craig, Wendy (1934-) Biography. Retrieved October 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ Tim Walker and Richard Eden: Mortimer's joy at son with Wendy Craig . September 11, 2004, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  4. ^ Matthew Taylor: John Mortimer's secret son breaks his silence . September 15, 2004, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed October 25, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Craig, Wendy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Sacriston at Durham , England , United Kingdom